I think they both pretty much nail it. Chomsky can be tremendously educational and insightful (life-changingly so), but the notion that one should suspend critical faculties as with a god, would be, I think an unfortunate consequence.

Chomsky, in the end, was a Democrat Party asset and soft zionist. He always said the Democrats were very marginally better and should be voted for. This is sheepdogging. He always said that the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Clock was closer to midnight, and frankly it was Biden who did that in cutting all communication with Russia while presenting a virulently Russofobic stance. The Kiev coup happened under Obama, and Biden elevated Nuland within the state department. Most of what Trump is doing is potentially reversible, a nuclear exchange is not.

As with Hitchens, below, Chomsky was quite possibly compromised, and clear connections have come to light more recently.

- Shyaku